Why the Qantas hack should send chills around corporate Australia
The lesson here isn’t that the airline failed – it’s that most Australian companies don’t yet have the visibility or capability to avoid the same fate.
Qantas has spent the past week revealing to almost 6 million customers the extent of data stolen in its cyberattack. The rest of corporate Australia, watching on, will be particularly worried given the airline is no cybersecurity novice.
The criminal group who tricked a call centre employee to gain access to a platform with Qantas frequent flyer data are smart operators, and if it can happen to the country’s largest airline, it can happen to anyone.
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James Turner is founder and managing director of CISO Lens, an information sharing and analysis community for cybersecurity executives.
